Linda Blair, yesterday and today: how the little girl in the film The Exorcist has changed (PHOTO)

By the age of 12, Linda Blair had already appeared in 75 commercials and hundreds of catalogs

The curiosities about the film The Exorcist

Immediately after the release of de The ExorcistLinda Blair began receiving death threats from a stranger who was never identified

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The first time the small Linda Blair had to recite the foul-mouthed dialogue of the demon, Max Von Sydow was so shocked by the vulgarity of the language that he forgot his lines

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Linda Blair was forced to work with stuntwomen, special effects experts, directors and her fellow actors to bring Regan to life. But despite her collaborations, she is the heart of the performance: the actress received a deserved Oscar nomination for the role of her, but despite everything the “demonic” voice of little Regan was not Blair’s but Mercedes McCambridge

In The Exorcist William Friedkin wanted to see the breath coming out of the actors’ mouth on the screen. To achieve this he made the set frozen. Linda Blair, for example, still hates feeling that bitter cold on her

Neither The Exorcistthe noise Linda Blair makes when she turns her head 360 degrees is produced by the rubbing of the leather wallet of Gonzalo Gavira, the sound engineer of the film

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Linda Blair in Los Angeles, in 1973, at the 31st edition of the Oscars ceremony together with Max Von Sydow who in The Exorcist plays Father Lankester Merrin

LInda Blair and Martin Sheen in Xanadu – Close your eyes and look at the stars (1975)

Linda Blair returns to take on the role of Regan The Exorcist II: the heretic (1977) by John Boorman

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The year Linda Blair shot The Exorcist II – the heretic (1977) is remembered by the actress as the most difficult and heavy of her life: the actress found herself facing the divorce of her parents, the end of two relationships – one of which with Rick Springfield – problems of depression and alcoholism

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Linda Blair has been in talks for the role of Iris in Taxi Driver, but the part was awarded to Jodie Foster, who won an Oscar. Several years later, in an attempt to shake off the “victim” roles, she proposed as the star of Blue Lagoon, but her role went to Brooke Shield.

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LInda Blair, in 1983, during a TV show. As happened to so many other young actors, Linda Blair’s career has remained forever linked to the character she portrayed in it The Exorcist. So much so that she said: “I wanted to be a princess, maybe in a Disney movie. I wanted to be in Lassie, or in Flipper. I didn’t want to be a monster”

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LInda Blair in 1984, during the 19th Academy of Country Music Awards

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Linda Blair in The house 4 (1989) by Fabrizio Laurenti

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Linda Blair in 1990. Still on the subject of her portrayal of the exorcist, the actress said: “When I was little I used to meet people who were really terrified of me. They couldn’t separate me from the monster I had played in a movie. . You can’t imagine how many people asked me to roll my head like in the movie ”

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In 1990, LInda Blair returns to play the character of Regan in the parody Repossessed

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Linda Blair at the 1993 Golden Globes

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Linda Blair in 1998

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Linda Blair in 2000

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LInda Blair in 2011

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Linda Blair in 2018